Queen Naija sang the national anthem at the Emirates NBA Cup Championship game Wednesday, which saw the Knicks take the win against the the San Antonio Spurs. She said in a post on Instagram that the moment brought her back to her high school days. “As a girl who used to sing the national anthem for […]
Former President Barack Obama moderates a conversation during the Obama Foundation’s 2024 Democracy Forum on December 05, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) President Barack Obama is out with a list of his favorite movies of 2025, featuring a mix of blockbusters, independent flicks, foreign films and more. “As 2025 comes to […]
In this photo illustration, Powerball lottery tickets are displayed on a countertop at the Brew Market & Cafe on September 04, 2025 in Austin, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — The Powerball jackpot is estimated to climb to $1.5 billion for Saturday night’s drawing, marking the fifth-largest prize in the lottery’s history, after no […]
Wiz Khalifa performs on stage at Loud Park on November 22, 2025, in Navi Mumbai, India. (Photo by Matt Jelonek/Getty Images) Wiz Khalifa was sentenced to nine months in prison Thursday by an appeals court in Romania for drug possession, in connection with his appearance at the Beach, Please! Festival in July 2024. During the […]
Singers Brandy & Monica during an interview on Wednesday, June 25, 2025 — (Photo by: Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty Images) Brandy and Monica are following their just-finished The Boy Is Mine Tour with a New Year’s Eve performance. They’re among the stars who are on the lineup for CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper […]
Passengers crowd at Los Angeles International Airport as the Independence Day holiday approaches on July 2, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (I RYU/VCG via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — This Christmas and New Year’s holiday period is expected to be the busiest on record. More than 122 million people are expected to travel between Dec. […]
(NEW YORK) — Nick Reiner, the son of slain director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner, has retained a high-profile attorney to represent him as he faces murder charges in their killing. Alan Jackson, who defended Kevin Spacey, Harvey Weinstein and Karen Read has been serving as the 32-year-old’s attorney. Jackson has been […]
LONDON — U.S. Southern Command announced on Wednesday that American forces struck another alleged drug vessel in the Eastern Pacific, killing four people the command described as “narco-terrorists.” Wednesday’s strike was the 26th since such operations began on Sept. 2. The total death toll as reported by the Pentagon now stands at 99 people. SOUTHCOM […]
Matt Damon as Odysseus on the poster for Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey.’ (Universal Pictures) This isn’t an enchantment from a siren: there is a new poster for Christopher Nolan‘s The Odyssey. Universal Pictures shared the brand-new poster for the upcoming film on Thursday. The studio also announced that the prologue of The Odyssey will be […]
(LONDON) — LONDON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an address on Wednesday that Russia is preparing “the coming year as a year of war,” despite ongoing U.S.-brokered peace talks to end Moscow’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor. Zelenskyy said Russian President Vladimir Putin sent “signals” of Moscow’s aggressive intent in remarks made on Wednesday, […]
